The Old Ways A Journey on Foot

Robert Macfarlane 지음

Penguin Books Ltd 2012년 06월 07일 출간

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2012THE SUNDAY TIMES #3 BESTSELLERThe genre-defining book by acclaimed nature writer Robert Macfarlane: travel Britain's ancient paths and discover the secrets of this beautiful, underappreciated landscapeFollowing the tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast ancient network of routes criss-crossing the British Isles and beyond, Robert Macfarlane discovers a lost world - a landscape of the feet and the mind, of pilgrimage and ritual, of stories and ghosts; above all of the places and journeys which inspire and inhabit our imaginations.'Really do love it. He has a rare physical intelligence and affords total immersion in place, elements and the passage of time: wonderful' Antony Gormley'A marvellous marriage of scholarship, imagination and evocation of place. I always feel exhilarated after reading Macfarlane' Penelope Lively'Macfarlane immerses himself in regions we may have thought familiar, resurrecting them newly potent and sometimes beautifully strange. In a moving achievement, he returns our heritage to us' Colin Thubron'Every Robert MacFarlane book offers beautiful writing, bold journeys . . . With its global reach and mysterious Sebaldian structure, this is MacFarlane's most important book yet' David Rothenberg, author of Survival of the Beautiful and Thousand Mile Song'Luminous, possessing a seemingly paradoxical combination of the dream-like and the hyper-vigilant, The Old Ways is, as with all of Macfarlane's work, a magnificent read. Each sentence can carry astonishing discovery' Rick Bass, US novelist and nature writer'The Old Ways confirms Robert Macfarlane's reputation as one of the most eloquent and observant of contemporary writers about nature' Scotland on Sunday'Sublime writing . . . sets the imagination tingling . . . Macfarlane's way

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Read this and it will be impossible to take an unremarkable walk again

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저자(글) Robert Macfarlane

영국의 문학가, 저술가이자 산악인이다. 청소년기부터 등산을 시작해 20대에 암벽 등반에 능한 알피니스트가 되었으며, 자연·인간·장소·언어에 대한 저술로 세계적인 자연 작가 반열에 올랐다. 2007년 출간한 『더 와일드 플레이스The Wild Places』로 보드먼 태스커 산악 문학상을 받았으며 그 밖에도 『언더랜드』 『잃어버린 말The Lost Words』(공저) 『잃어버린 주문The Lost Spells』(공저) 등을 펴냈다. ‘당대 최고의 문학 작가’라는 평을 받으며 2013년 부커상 심사 위원에 위촉되기도 했다. 지금은 케임브리지대학 이매뉴얼 칼리지에서 학생들을 가르치고 있다.